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Laura
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I'm sitting amid the wreckage of a box of Thin Mints and a box of Samoas, my good reasonable eating habits momentarily destroyed in a fit of wanton snarfing.
So.Good. Sooooooo. Goooooood.
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One is too many and a thousand are not enough.
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Go Anne Go
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Thin Mints. Minty yes, but I've eaten loads of them and don't seem to be any thinner.
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Laura
General nuisance
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Originally posted by Go Anne Go:
Thin Mints. Minty yes, but I've eaten loads of them and don't seem to be any thinner.
False advertising. ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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Laura
General nuisance
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I had to help the neighbor girls! It was charity!
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Janine
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We don't have Girl Scouts in the immediate neighborhood. All our close neighbor-kids are teen and young adult males.
They get us at church. Charity begins in the pews.
Samoas. Tagalongs. Thin Mints. Whatever-the-heck you call the peanut-butter-and-chocolate ones. Boxes and boxes of them. All for a Good Cause and thus For The Lord, too.
I'm working now so I wasn't at home alone with them this time. They actually got eaten up by the kids and the FG and they lasted a week.
I don't know whether to be grateful I missed the pig-out, or sorry about it.
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Joan Rasch
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Oh, dear -- I think the next time I go into my local public transit station, I will have to purchase a box of Thin Mints (as a former Girl Sprout) (or maybe 3 boxes - for my Dear Dad)
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Why is it always during Lent? Is there a conspiracy?
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KenWritez
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I'm seeing Laura passed out face-up on the floor in her power suit, she's spread-eagled, stomach distended, glasses knocked askew, her fingers twitching slighty, chocolate smeared around her mouth, and the floor around her littered with ripped cellophane and broken, emptied cookie boxes.
Children cry behind closed doors and a man's voice comforts them, saying. "Hush, my sweet ones, the storm will soon pass."
In self-defense against the Girl Scouts I have hired sherrif's deputies, grim men all, to escort me to the grocery store and back. They have inviolable orders to guard me against the snack-packing, dewy-eyed minions of Hell, and I've authorized them to use deadly force if a Thin Mint comes within ten paces of me.
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Annichka
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You should all count yourselves lucky: you are civilians. I'm actually amongst the ranks: a volunteer with the Girl Scouts of America, and I have to fend off my troops with a bloody STICK. Still, perhaps such endless exposure has hardened me to their attacks. I somehow have only one box of Thin Mints and they are still sitting in my cupboard, unopened, after three whole weeks.
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Mamacita
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Originally posted by Janine:
They get us at church. Charity begins in the pews.
Yep, try to get through Coffee Hour in March without being assaulted by a green-sash-wearing conspiratrice brandishing an order form and a pen.
Laura, try putting the cookies in the freezer.
(By the way, did you know Thin Mints taste *great* right out of the freezer?)
-- Mamacita, who survived three years as Cookie Mom
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Zach82
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I have a box of peanut butter patties and the coconut ones sitting around, waiting for Easter Sunday. They mourn the loss of their shortbread brothers who, alas, fit in with a Lenten fast.
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Sir Kevin
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We were ambushed outside of my favourite supermarkets and we gave $5 in lieu of buying cookies.
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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
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At least my daughter is no longer one of the trans-fat-pushing demonic ones, and we are no longer morally obligated to buy a couple dozen boxes. She's gone vegan to boot, and won't even eat them. So when I went to Albertson's and was ambushed outside the door, I almost resisted--just a box of Samoas and one of Walkabouts. They're almost gone, and I'm having pre-withdrawal symptoms already--I keep putting off eating the last one, but I don't know how long I can hold out...
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RuthW
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Originally posted by Mamacita:
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Originally posted by Janine:
They get us at church. Charity begins in the pews.
Yep, try to get through Coffee Hour in March without being assaulted by a green-sash-wearing conspiratrice brandishing an order form and a pen.
I went to the 8 am service a few times. They weren't up at that hour. And this last Sunday at coffee hour they were delivering cookies, not taking orders.
I must be livin' right this year. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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I managed to avoid the ponytailed demonspawn this year. That's a good thing, I think.
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Can anyone spare a Thin Mint? Preferably a frozen one?
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Scot
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By the way, what do Girl Scouts do apart from selling crack, erm... cookies?
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babybear
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Originally posted by Cassiel:
I somehow have only one box of Thin Mints and they are still sitting in my cupboard, unopened, after three whole weeks.
I shall PM you my address.
Otherwise I shall not believe the fabrications of Laura and KenW.
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Smudgie
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We, the citizens of the United Kingdom, feel duty bound to support our fellow Shipmates overseas. We will all, forthwith, PM you our addresses. Thus you may earn yourselves Brownie Points for three good deeds: the purchase of said cookies and Thin Mints which are clearly raising money for a good and worthy cause; the non-eating of said cookies which is beneficial to your weight and Lenten promises; and the giving of pleasure in cookie-form to those overseas who are without girl-scouts to evade.
See how we think of you?
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Yeah! In the spirit of lease-lend couldn't we at least borrow a few boxes?
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Chapelhead:
Yeah! In the spirit of lease-lend couldn't we at least borrow a few boxes?
Don't encourage them!
Last time we had lend-lease the Americans sent Spam. You don't think we'll get anything worthwhile???
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babybear
Bear faced and cheeky with it
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Shush Sioni! There was a good chance of this min thin scam working. The Americans tend to a very kind hearted bunch, always ready to share their good fortune.
Not put their backs up my reminding them of the pink meatish thingy. No! Instead remind them that we do not have freedom of speech, nor the right to bear arms (well apart from Paddington and myself).
Neiter do we have mint thins. I refer you back to the wonderful post written by Smudgie.
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Sioni Sais
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True bb, the Americans are very generous (crawl, crawl, snivel and crawl) but I believe they do it best out of the goodness of their heart rather than when their government tells them to.
As for Thin Mints I'm sure Mrs Sioni could rustle these up if she had the recipe. The Health Education Council have a price on her head as a result of her Grantham Gingerbreads.
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Flausa
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The Americans tend to a very kind hearted bunch, always ready to share their good fortune.
Just you wait. It starts with just one box, and then in a couple of years you'll be cursing Americans and those adorable little demonspawn for their blasted imported cookies.
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Padingtun Bear.
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Hmn.
In the interests of diplomacy and Girl Scout Globilisation, I think we should put the UK shipmates forward as the international export branch of the aforementioned cookie movement. And besides, Smudgie's logic is undeniable.
No, seriously - have you ever tried a really British biscuit? The sort that you can dunk in your tea without it falling apart (i.e. rock solid!)
Mint Thins, We Need You!
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Flausa:
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The Americans tend to a very kind hearted bunch, always ready to share their good fortune.
Just you wait. It starts with just one box, and then in a couple of years you'll be cursing Americans and those adorable little demonspawn for their blasted imported cookies.
You mean that in every British high street, between every Fastbucks and BurgerNasty there will be a GirlScout store selling cookies?
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Can you imagine the uniforms?
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Flausa
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Sioni, if it was a store selling Girl Scout cookies, that would be avoided. Rather it's these little adorable minions that corner you at church, at random stores, and their parents haunt you at work, and suddenly you've bought 12 boxes and you can't give them away because everyone else around you has done the same. Then just when you've finished your last box, and are needing another "hit," the little rugrats are nowhere to be found, and you are left to convulse in withdrawal in your own spittle.
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Marvin the Martian
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Can you imagine the uniforms?
I couldn't before you said that, curse you ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif) .
More seriously, as a member (lapsed) - and thus representative - of the UK Scout Movement, I would like to extend the hand of friendship and support across the ocean to the Girl Scouts of America. Your endeavours in the cookie-based fundraising field are sans pareil.
(by the way, if any of you were in World Jamboree '95 troop 116*, next to the Birmingham part of the UK contingent, I honestly have no idea how that snail got there. In fact, what snail? ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif) )
Oh, and while that hand's extended, could you see your way to dropping a couple boxes of Thin Mints onto it, in the spirit of solidarity and mutual respect of course ...
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babybear
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Originally posted by Flausa:
suddenly you've bought 12 boxes and you can't give them away because everyone else around you has done the same.
We can save you from this awful fate! We can be your saviours. Let us help.
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Give us your Double Dutch, he says
Trefoils yearning to be free
We take a bite from your Do-Si-Dos
A bite of Liberty
Give us your packaged cookies
Lost on another shore
All Abouts and Thin Mints
These we take and more
Give us your Lemon Coolers
That we from another place
We who would dream of Tagalongs
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The only reason I buy Girl Scout Cookies is to support the wonderful programs and opportunities for these (very) young women. Yes, I want to encourage them in their lives and I want to help them to succeed in their quest for knowledge and wholesome activities.
Besides, I only gave up eyerolling for Lent.
*urp* There's a half-sleeve of Thin Mints gone while writing this. Gosh! My self-control has really improved! <-...needs cookie crumbs around mouth...
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Smudgie
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
You mean that in every British high street, between every Fastbucks and BurgerNasty there will be a GirlScout store selling cookies?
No no no. Please read for comprehension. The suggestion is that our beloved American cousins should send the cookies but retain the actual girl-scouts. After all, how could we deprive them of their sweet pony-tailed offspring? No, we will simply relieve them of the undesirable side-effects of being the Nation of Cookie-selling Girl Scouts. It's the least we could do.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Smudgie:
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
You mean that in every British high street, between every Fastbucks and BurgerNasty there will be a GirlScout store selling cookies?
No no no. Please read for comprehension. The suggestion is that our beloved American cousins should send the cookies but retain the actual girl-scouts. After all, how could we deprive them of their sweet pony-tailed offspring? No, we will simply relieve them of the undesirable side-effects of being the Nation of Cookie-selling Girl Scouts. It's the least we could do.
I wuz worried about this being the thin end of the wedge. American businesses know how susceptible we are to their products and once the Girl Scout cookies arrive that will be it. They will achieve cult status in, oh, days and it will be the polenta of 2006.
I would never suggest America's finest young ladies should come here to serve in the GirlScoutCookie stores. They would have to be recruited here but quite what your average chav would look like in even an approximation to a Girl Scout uniform I can't imagine.
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
I wuz worried about this being the thin end of the wedge. American businesses know how susceptible we are to their products and once the Girl Scout cookies arrive that will be it. They will achieve cult status in, oh, days and it will be the polenta of 2006.
In order to resist the onslaught of cookies we should immunise ourselves against them first - I think that we should be sent small but regular packets of girl scout cookies so that the effects when the cookies actually reach the british market will be minimalised.
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I would never suggest America's finest young ladies should come here to serve in the GirlScoutCookie stores. They would have to be recruited here but quite what your average chav would look like in even an approximation to a Girl Scout uniform I can't imagine.
Chav's wear brownine and guide uniforms over here just like everyone else - have you never seen a 10 year old girl who hangs around the streets with white trainers tormenting her classmates and smoking come into a brownie hut wearing brown shorts, yellow jumper and a sash? I have...But then again, Brown owl was a terror...
[Code and cookies. Mmmrrfmfff...chocolatey, minty goodness....]
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Go Anne Go
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Of course, the clever marketing ploy of it all is the fact that they're only available once a year. (WHich is how people know that Thin Mints last in the freezer - hoarding does occur). This is opposed to any other kind of sweet or food in the USA, however seasonal. Marshmallow Peeps are in season now, but lately you can get marshmallow christmas trees, valentine hearts, etc all made by the same company so it isn't quite as pressing an issue. (Um, unless you're me.)
The eternal cry "Its girl scout cookie time" has led to new entrepreneurship. Now the little scouties just order in loads of cookies and sell them on tables out side the Supermarket - more sales and less effort than going tdoor to door the way I had to!
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The Riv
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11 Girl Scouts in the Children's Choir this year. So it was one box from each of them.
Four remain...
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I've got Tagalongs, AllAbouts and Do-Si-dos left. The Thin Mints and Samoas (gooey cookie, caramel, coconut and chocolate delights) go first. Then the Trefoils (shortbread).
I'm not the Cookie Mom, but I made the mistake of volunteering to get rid of, er, sell the extras. They are bought by the case, so there are always leftovers that must be sold. I still have about eight boxes to go.
Oh, and JB - it is ALWAYS during Lent, and the little darlings are trained to tell you how WELL the cookies freeze!
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Laura
General nuisance
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Originally posted by babybear:
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Originally posted by Cassiel:
I somehow have only one box of Thin Mints and they are still sitting in my cupboard, unopened, after three whole weeks.
I shall PM you my address.
Otherwise I shall not believe the fabrications of Laura and KenW.
Babybear and Smudgie: send me your addresses by PM and I shall send you a box of your choice of girl scout cookies. I recommend the Thin Mints (crisp mint chocolate cookies enrobed in dark chocolate). Also good are the Samoas (crispy cookie topped with caramel dredged coconut and chocolate stripes) and Tagalongs (peanut butter patties on cookies enroben in chocolate). I'm ordering a batch for my sister in a few hours' time. As to the other non-US shipmates, the next two to PM me will also get a box, their choice. I understand that some are made which do not involve chocolate but frankly can't see the point of that.
I must warn you: they are highly addictive. And they only come once a year.
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snowgoose
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Originally posted by Mamacita:
(By the way, did you know Thin Mints taste *great* right out of the freezer?)
Thin Mints are better right out of the freezer. It also solves the no-chocolate-for-Lent problem, though the day after Easter tends to be a serious occasion for gluttony.
Oh....Thin Mints. Mmmmmm. Ambrosia.
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Emma Louise
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I think i might be a bit late for a box of yours laura- but ill happily volunteer if any other US shipmate would like the opportunity of serving botht the little girl scouts AND a uk shipmate (and of course themselves the hastle of eating yet another box ![[Biased]](wink.gif) )
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Laura
General nuisance
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Originally posted by Scot:
By the way, what do Girl Scouts do apart from selling crack, erm... cookies?
If I recall correctly, I earned badges in camping, assorted crafts, hospitality ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) , sport, writing, hiking, books, horseback riding, and some other stuff. We had weekly meetings and occasional camping trips. The cookies we received directly from the powers of Darkness, through a conjuring ceremony. I was always very proud of my "Pagan Feminist Cookie Conjuring" badge.
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Mamacita
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Originally posted by Go Anne Go:
The eternal cry "Its girl scout cookie time" has led to new entrepreneurship. Now the little scouties just order in loads of cookies and sell them on tables out side the Supermarket - more sales and less effort than going tdoor to door the way I had to!
These are called "site sales." The GSA started doing site sales when their door-to-door profits declined due to people just not being home during the daylight hours (moms working outside the home, etc.).
I learned that at Cookie Training, which I had to sit through in order to be the troop Cookie Mom. (Actually, it wasn't bad. Very professional. Those people know their cookies.)
Another factoid from cookie training: The GSA are the third-highest selling producers of cookies in the US. Not bad for a once-a-year marketing effort.
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babybear
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Originally posted by Laura:
Babybear and Smudgie: send me your addresses by PM and I shall send you a box of your choice of girl scout cookies.
Now this is the sort of generous, open handedness that I assosiate with our American shipmates. Many thanks Laura.
I shall hunt out a little something from the Isle of Man. I fear that it will not be food as the American import restrictions are very tight.
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KenWritez
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To put all this in perspective for our UK friends, consider GSA cookies to be, oh, say, the moral equivalent of TimTams dusted with heroin and crack cocaine sprinkles. There are people who literally order cases of the damn things so as to have a year's supply of cookies until the next Cookie Orgy.
It's quite the domestic triumph to offer one's guests Thin Mints or Samoas six months after everyone else has eaten their last, miserably hoarded cookie. Ask Sine.
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"The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd." --Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction
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RuthW
liberal "peace first" hankie squeezer
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Out of curiosity, I clicked on jedijudy's link to the Girl Scouts website and followed a few other links that led me to the information that I have not missed the grocery store marketing campaign in my area.
So now I can't go to the grocery store for the next few weeks. I'm going to have to do all my grocery shopping at the independently-owned convenience store around the corner or the 7-11 up the street. Though on second thought, considering the food those places sell, I may as well eat Girl Scout cookies.
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KenWritez
Shipmate
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Hmmmm...7-11 microwave burritos and Top Ramen vs. Thin Mints and Samoas.
Tough choice, Ruth.
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"The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd." --Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction
My blog: http://oxygenofgrace.blogspot.com
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Laura
General nuisance
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Okay, sophs gets the third box! Who wants the fourth?
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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Erich Fromm
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sewanee_angel
Shipmate
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The rest of you are welcome to Tagalongs, Somoas, and all the rest. The only Girl Scout cookies I crave are the Thin Mints. They are the bestest. mmm...thin mints...mmm
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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Life is good. Life is very good
I will be making a space in my freezer in anticipation... purely in the spirit of transatlantic cooperation, I hasten to add.
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Chapelhead*
Ship’s Photographer
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quote:
Originally posted by Laura:
Okay, sophs gets the third box! Who wants the fourth?
Ooh, yes please, yes please, yes please!
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Benedikt Gott Geschickt!
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